Why are people behaving like toddlers? - Robert Fergusson

When you read the Bible, you need to look at the context.

Can I just say that sometimes Paul the apostle who wrote Galatians is in a good mood, sometimes he's in a bad mood.

When he wrote Galatians, he was in a bad mood.

Why? Because the church that he'd planted in Galatia had been saved and set free, but they had gone back to their old traditions, their old superstitions, their old culture, and now they were demanding that every new believer in Christ should be circumcised according to the old law.

and he was angry.

And I'm just going to tell you what he said to them, even though it's not appropriate for a Sunday morning church.

He said, if you're going to go and demand people be circumcised, I hope you go and castrate yourself.

Go the whole way.

Emasculate yourself.

All right, so we're going to read it in a angry voice.

We're going to start at Galatians 3, verse 23.

Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.

So the law was our guardian, our guide, until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

Everybody say faith.

Faith.

Now that this faith has come, you are no longer under a guardian or the law.

So in Christ Jesus, you are all children.

That word is sons of God through faith.

For all of you who are baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ.

He's saying you're no longer under the law.

You are now new believers in Christ.

The purpose of the law was to bring you to Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male nor female, nor...

I'm going to add a verse.

You shouldn't do that, but I'm going to add one.